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When award winning English novelist and short story writer Jon McGregor comes to Galway, to read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, it will be his second visit to the county in less than a month.

The second Irish Tatler Working Lunch, a series of innovative networking seminars, is taking place in The g Hotel in Galway tomorrow.

Catch all the sporting action at the Prince Bar - with seven screens over two floors you won’t miss any of the sporting action!

The Pillar House Folk Club, Ballinasloe’s firmly established intimate 80 seat venue, will play host to Eleanor McEvoy on Friday April 17 and Freddie White on Friday May 15.

Local lad Cian Morrin, who is part of Louis Walsh’s newest chart-topping band Hometown, will be back in Castlebar on Sunday night (April 5) when they play the Royal Theatre Castlebar as part of their nationwide tour. Cian, from Rhinshina in Breaffy, first came to attention when he appeared on The X Factor in 2012 when he was a secondary school student in St Gerald’s College in Castlebar where he made it through a number of rounds. Cian had gone on to start studying to become a national school teacher before the call came for him to become one-sixth of Hometown last year.

It is said that all political careers end in failure. The great Daniel O’Connell’s final slide into earthly oblivion was heralded by the now familiar sight of journalists descending on his estate at Derrynane, Co Kerry, the year before he died. They had scented a whiff of scandal, and like today, doorstepped him.

A weight loss expert from Athlone has struck gold for her exceptional work in helping more than 100 people to lose weight every week.

From an early stage in Westmeath's Allianz Football League Division Two, campaign manager Tom Cribbin predicted that everything would boil down to the last weekend in the group and so it will be against Roscommon at Cusack Park, Mullingar on Sunday.

Galway United face a demanding SSE Airtricity League Premier Division trip to Tallaght Stadium tomorrow for a clash with Shamrock Rovers.

MEET PAKIE, an orphan, storyteller, adventurer, and survivor. He may not be the sharpest tool in the box, but he does know the history of his native town, from vicious Vikings to less-than Christian Brothers.